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Brian K. Rice, president of the California Professional Firefighters union, also expressed dismay, noting that nearly half of the state is federal land, including “some of the wildest, most burnable areas of our state.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025

Question marks dot the landscape of burnable bushes and pushable boulders, with entire regions left unrevealed.

From New York Times • May 13, 2023

Across burnable lands globally, the annual number of flammable nighttime hours increased by 110 hours over the past four decades — allowing five additional nights when flammability does not cease, the study stated.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2022

A statistically significant decline in such nights happened in 59% of burnable lands worldwide.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 16, 2022

Unburnable solid trash goes without saying, but burnable trash is no different: even after burning, the gaseous part disperses in the atmosphere, and the ashes still remain.

From Down with the Cities by Nakashima, Tadashi